Alpha 3 includes the 3.0.0-7.9 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the mainline v3.0 kernel. This is an update from the 3.0-3.4 Ubuntu kernel which shipped in the Alpha 2 release and was based on the mainline v3.0-rc5 kernel. Some of the most notable changes between the Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 release with respect to the kernel include: